📜 Official Text

When Puducherry's Legislature isn't in session, its administrator may promulgate Ordinances if satisfied immediate action is needed - but only after obtaining instructions from the President, and not at all if the Legislature is dissolved or suspended. Such an Ordinance is deemed a duly-enacted Act of the territory's Legislature, must be laid before it, ceases after six weeks of reassembly (or earlier if disapproved), and may be withdrawn by the administrator (again, only with the President's instructions).